Abstract

HERRERA, Hernando Isacc; TOVAR-ORTEGA, Teremy  and  AVILA, José Hernando. High School and University Students' Attitude towards Statistics According to their Sex. Rev. Fac. Cienc. Tecnol. [online]. 2022, n.51, pp.153-168.  Epub Oct 17, 2022. ISSN 0121-3814.  https://doi.org/10.17227/ted.num51-11799168.

The students' attitude towards statistics determines ways of thinking, feeling, and acting towards the contents of this subject, being thus the phenomenon usually approached in high school education. This research article has been developed with the purpose to comparatively analyze high-school and university students' attitudes towards statistics, including comparisons as per sex. Through a comparative transversal design of natural groups, the affective, cognitive, value and difficulty attitudes were evaluated in 128 Colombian students. The results show little affective approach for the subject, low perception of difficulty and scarce practical value, without there being meaningful differences within the groups evaluated. The data suggest that statistics raise little interest in students and that the attitudes developed from high school may endure until their university preparation, for which it is necessary to apply strategies from early education training for the promotion of a statistics culture.

Keywords : statistics; student attitudes; university student; high school student; sex.

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